https everywhere

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 2/21/2014 3:55 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 20:35:12 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 20:34:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> dlang.org and dconf.org now support https,
>>>
>>> https://dlang.org
>>> https://dconf.org
>>>
>>> Note that this is a self-signed certificate, and so when you first
>>> access it you'll get a dire warning from your browser.
>>
>> Why can't free startssl certificate be used?
>
> The whole certification principle is about how much you trust who sign
> the certificate. I trust digital mas much more than startssl.

Self-signed certs *can't* be trusted to be from the party they claim to 
be from. Anyone can generate a self-signed cert claiming to be Digital Mars.